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What I find remarkable is that the government can refuse to give any information about the civilian casulaties.
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Not so remarkable. To my knowledge, even international law does not require this.
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...the only people who have number are people who seem to care about how many innocent people have been killed, which are anti-war organizations or aribic news sources.
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Yes, and they would seem to care very much. From their perspective, a higher civilian body count translates as more political points scored.
Marc Herold, the activist behind Iraqbodycount.org organized a smiliarly ghoulish project during the Afghanistan campaign. "He produced a figure of almost 3,800 civilian casualties, and his methodology was immediately criticized by many for taking reports from unreliable media sources at face value and for double-counting some incidents. An independent analysis by the Los Angeles Times found 1,200 or fewer civilian casualties."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...2/554awdqo.asp